i feel like i heard there was an international officer that has a fantastic collection of pins and that she brought to either a DLC or Grand Convention for everyone to see. the collegiate province director of rho chapter mentioned that she had seen them and they were beautiful.

so maybe they'll be make a travelling exhibit!

Yes i have heard the same. I think honey has made reference to her before, but without naming her.

Wouldn't that be wonderful if there was???

I have seen that collection and it is wonderful! The sister brought some to a DLC and a larger selection (including the Adelphean badge) to 150th Convention. She's also an ebayer, her name is on our list, and she once emailed me (not realizing that we know each other!) to say that she really wanted a certain badge I was also bidding on. Gosh, that was a few years ago! Anyway, her latest addition is an all-opal with an opal guard - simply breathtaking!!

I'm almost positive that the sister with the fabulous collection is Maureen Callahan? I've never seen it myself; Beth Hamilton has told me about it. I would LOVE to see a poster or such made of the pins - as I've said before, one of the beauties of Alpha Delta Pi is that, just like our pins, we're each originals & diverse, yet our diamonds are indentical!

Not a badge, but a lavalier
 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=11145

In case you are interested

That one is my favorite!! My bf wears it around his neck to remind him of me. :)

Maureen came to HB when I was formal recruitment chair and helped me run a 2 day recruitment workshop. I believe her position is something in alumni relations but she was helping out our DIII recruitment advisor.

Anyways she showed us her collection which was really amazing. She has one of the original adelphean badges and all sorts of varieties of our pin. It was great to see that not only does she collect but she is also willing to share it with other sisters. I know a lot of the girls in my chapter where blown away by the collection. The one thing marueen did tell us was that there is a group of people (all of them are not necessarily greek) that collect greek pins and once and awhile they all get together and trade. She said she got a lot of the rare badges that way. Someone will go to an estate sale or see something on ebay and buy it and then offer to trade it with marueen for a non-adpi pin in her collection (I guess I should mention she collects other badges too but I didnt see that collection).

I completely agree with everyone that the people on ebay who just run up the prices are just cruel and it really stinks when a badge goes to a non-sister but who knows maybe the person who buys it ends up trading it with marueen and the pin finds its way back to us again!

Oh and Marueen told us that if we ever needed to buy another pin to contact her before buying anything off ebay because she might be able to get us a better deal. I thought I'd throw that out there in case someone is looking for a pin. So maybe if more sisters look internally rather than on ebay to get replacement pins there willl be less competition on ebay and that way we can watch actions like sitting ducks and attack at the very last minute and hope the price doesnt go as steep as it could.

Re: Not a badge, but a lavalier
 

I wear that charm! I got mine from Gift Mart...they are getting them for all of the seniors this year at Beta Tau!!

This may sound like a weird question, but does anyone have an Alpha pin in their collection?

We had to give ours back during the beginning of Diamond Days. I would love to add one to my collection.




edited for caution's sake!

We all had to return ours at the beginning of Diamond Days, but our Alumnae Association at the time paid for each of us to keep ours. They also made cute little frames for them, so I still have mine! :)

Re: Re: Not a badge, but a lavalier
 

BTW If you really want to bid on this charm, consider this...The beginning bid is $40. the charm costs $20 brand new with giftmart. Just an FYI.

That's awesome! We also had to give ours back at the beginning of Diamond Days, so I don't have mine :( There are times I wish I still did have my Alpha pin, but the thing is, when would I realy wear it? If I had it framed or something, that'd be different, but otherwise it'd probably sit in my badge box and I'd never wear it or share it with others.

*blush*

Our Alpha pins cost a whopping $2.50 each when I was a pledge!

What a beauty
 

Wow, have you seen the latest badge on ebay? If there wasn't a sister bidding on it, I would for sure and maybe even borrow $$ from my savings! It is an all opal one from 67. It is so pretty! Best of luck ladies.

Yep. :D I have one just like it. It was my great Aunts. She was initiated in 1936.